On August 17, 1982, engineers at a Polygram factory in Langenhagen, Germany, pressed the first commercial compact disc, containing the Swedish pop group ABBA's album The Visitors. The event marked the debut of a format that would reshape both the music and computing industries for decades to come. Although The......
IBM and Google say scalable quantum computers could arrive this decade
Quantum computing, long seen as a distant goal, is moving closer to reality as leading tech firms outline fresh plans for building scalable machines. In June, IBM released an updated roadmap that it says resolves several of the field's most challenging technical obstacles, setting the stage for what could be......
Another gold rush could bring open pit mines to South Dakota’s Black Hills
It has been 150 years since miners first flocked to South Dakota's Black Hills in a gold rush that displaced Native Americans
He earned a small town’s trust. He owed $95 million in what authorities say was a Ponzi scheme
A businessman from upstate New York is accused of preying on his neighbors in a massive Ponzi scheme
Trump runs into the difficulty of Putin diplomacy and ending a long war
President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe consequences” and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine
The Trump administration wants to end the UN peacekeeping in Lebanon. Europe is pushing back
The future of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has split the United States and its European allies with implications for security in the Middle East
States move to send hundreds of National Guard members to Washington
States are moving to send hundreds of members of their National Guard to the nation’s capital to assist in the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department
RushTok backlash: Why sororities aren’t letting prospects post
Kylan Darnell is a TikTok star known for documenting sorority recruitment, but she decided to step back from posting this year
Judge denies Trump administration request to end a policy protecting immigrant children in custody
A federal judge has denied the Trump administration's request to end a policy protecting immigrant children in federal custody
Searing heat draws visitors to Death Valley, where it’s tough to communicate risks
In California’s Death Valley National Park, one of the hottest places on Earth, summer temperatures can soar into the 130s F